Oran, the busiest port in Algeria, is 260 m. W. of Algiers; it has a Roman Catholic cathedral, a mosque, a school, a college, and two castles, and exports esparto grass, iron ore, and cereals.
Population (circa 1900) given as 74,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Opus Operatum * Orange River